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Child Bride To Appear HereOffer to Battalic BiEunice Winstead Johns, nine-year-old child bride, and her husband, Charlie, 23, who became nationally famous following- their marriage Iasi January, will make their lirst public appearance here Saturday at I he Bilan (heater.SHANGI United Sta troops offe drawal of trapped b;menace ofShanghai’s ment withers, Lnclud The: ofle' The de: doomed bs small aresFamous Child Bride, Hubby1 Scheduled To Appear Herewhich theabandonedadvancingGiCrowds had gathe shower of watch theBUSINESS IS GOODj Appearance Here Will Be First In PublicAVERS GEN. DAWES' For Famed PairFiery General Believes That Nation Is Not Facing Serious Decline In BusinessRv DEWITT MACKENZIEIsolated in their mountain cabin since Jan. 19,. the day they were married the famous, nine-year-oldoridc, Eunice. Winsteadand her husband, Charlie22. will make their firstNEW YORK, Oct. 28. (/PI—’ public: appearance at 1 p.m. Sat-here,childJohns,Johns.Home from the foreign wars is our own vibrant General Chrirles G. ft?ell and Maria) Dawes, radiating optimism ond reading in the cards that America is not facir.g a serious business decline.Coincidentally, he opens the motor show with its parade of cars in shining armor, aided and abetted by an American Petroleum industries committee prediction that this year will record the sale of 11,500,-00 autos in the U. S.—and sales are increasing.^And what sort of coincidence do we cull this Dawes-motor show simultaneousness? Well, anyway it’s a fortuitous circumstance, in-urday at the Hilan theater according to Malcolm Taylor, manager ot the theater.Ta3ior said today that he had closed lt;i contract with W. A. Stall-cup, representative of an Atlanta theater booking house,vowingrelated ideas.impelsmarriagesources.thatyour correspondent tc fell you of another prediction and sage deduction about motorcars by General Dawes.That takes us down into thedepths of the depression back inA930, when the General was ambassador in London. Even in those dark days he declined to presume the death of American business and hang a crape on the door. On the contrary* he was wont to roar the declaration that business would ; recover, and that the motor in dustry would be the first to get on its feet. (That was pretty good shooting in the dark.)While admitting the General's sound judgment in most things, .Vhat statement about automobiles sounded a bit far-fetched. So I told his excellency one day as we sat in his private office at the American embassy, and asked him to elucidate.•‘Well, when I was a young man.” replied the ambassador as he set-to presentEast Tennessee's widely publicized couple on the Hilan 3tage for five performances during the day.Stalleup, while in Kingsport yesterday, said he had secured a con-tract'signcd by Johns and his wife and will bring them here from their mountain home in Hancock county to make their first public appearance before residents of this city ar.d vicinity.Marriage Laws Attend The marriage of the golden hair-j eri school girl to the lanky moun- j I tainecr farmer was publicized I \ throughout the world resulting in t \ the condemnation of the state's statutes from many It ultimately led tochanges in the marriage laws bythe state legislature.The marriage was performed m the middle of a country road near the home of the Winsteads and Johns not far from Sneedville the seat. Rev. Walter Lamb, ‘ j 33-year-ald Baptist minister, ad-I :ninis:ered the marriage vows af-j ter which the nine-year-old child | bride returned to her dolls and 1 toys.So great was adverse criticism : of the marriage that the Tennessee legislature amended the i state's marriage laws prohibiting j a recurrence of a similar marriage.Since the marriage last January, Eunice and her husband have remained in seclusion in their mountain cabin.'' According to Taylorment's no American was made There v national western French cc major ba Hungjao, cated m a homes.Brig. G Marines lt;and the 1 P. D. Tel: embattled still servic necting v battle zon The An manders s be used Chinese south of 5 Remind-Japanese their po; Chin-Yu ai We are Japanese for their That th. battalion tain when man deck would mo units in C Japanes vised Unil preeautioi possible s the Chine section oi Designs ment as siman predkilled.Crowds Chinese v ment sid-their figh they wer remains c (CorWILLEXPhas j theitied onto the small of his back and Stallcup, however, the couple in his easy chair and got a far-off Wn«.horse-and-buggy-davs look in his ryes, when T was « young man,I took on the job of recovering pianos and sewing-machines from farmers who had purchased on the installment plan and then gone broke in a depression.IWEATHERconsented to appear before public in Kingsport as the firsr of a planned nation wide tour.Adverse Publicity No marriage was ever publicized sc highly. Word of the marriage spread rapidly throughout the universe bringing much adverse publicity to the -state of Tennessee. The state became known as the state of the child bride/’Mrs. At Forgir Is SaicMovie contracts were offered the I couple but were refused. Since that \ FAIR AND WARMER I time the couple has remained se-tVeNTUCKY-TENNESSEE: Fair \ eluded in the mountain- home of tonight ami Friday: rising temper- j the groom’s father near £need-alure Friday and in west portion tonight,VIRGINIA: Partly cloudy, preceded by rain in extreme northwest portion: slightly colder- *to-night except near Richmond; Friday fair-ville, in Hancock county.The appearance here will mark the first of several planned for the Johns. Kingsport was selected, promoters said, because of Eunice and Charlie’s aversion to (Continued On Page Six)ciNcirhandwriti Anna Ma of Jacob ments, in was adde denee in The bl accused t murders” for the p a retiredT4- i\irUxrAlbert engaged doeumen a- nighL s the authi ing whic represent and test: his mode Osborn ture on i power of a poor iPori r. P
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Kingsport Times
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Thu, Oct 28, 1937
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